The media club will host a variety of music, movies, podcasts etc. pertaining to different DEI subject matter.
On the 23rd of August each year, the international community remembers one of its greatest tragedies and shames: the transatlantic slave trade. Sharing a video link where Sharon Ann Murphy talks about her book, Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States which is on the connection between chattel slavery and the banking industry in pre-Civil War America.
Kumina Queen– A documentary by Nyasha Laing. In the wake of the loss of her mother, the filmmaker travels into the heart of Jamaican countryside to research kumina, an ancestral ritual. The ancient practice, she learns, is a driving force in Jamaica’s culture and identity, yet its leaders have historically been discarded as witches and criminalized.
Recommended by Bobby: “The Banker” -a great movie on Apple TV about two African American entrepreneurs in the 50’s-60’s. Highly Recommended!
Recommended by Duke: This is part 1 of a 2 part series on what it was like to be a person of color working at Bon Appetit. I found it quite compelling and enlightening.
Recommended by Minkashi: The movie Moxie is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed by Amy Poehler. Tamara Chestna and Dylan Meyer adapted the screenplay from the 2015 novel of the same name by Jennifer Mathieu. It is about a shy teenager who publishes an anonymous magazine calling out sexism at her school.
Recommended by Bhalin: Green Book, a movie on Amazon Prime, is about the struggles faced by an African-American pianist and how he develops a bond with his driver while he fights racism.
Recommended by Alyssa: Taste the Nation, with Padma Lakshmi. Padma Lakshmi, takes audiences on a journey across America, exploring the rich and diverse food culture of various immigrant groups, seeking out the people who have so heavily shaped what American food is today.
Corra's DEI Blog 